The Ondo state government has called on the state residents especially, community leaders to take charge and protect any government or individual infrastructure projects being done within their various vicinity. It also urges preventing and securing properties from being vandalized. Banji Ajaka, the state Commissioner for Health, made the call at a one-day training workshop organized by the state Global Fund/National Agency for the Control of AIDS/Resilient Sustainable System for Health/COVID-19 Response Mechanism held in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
Represented by the deputy director of public enlightenment, Ministry of Health, Rosemary Falokun, Ajaka said it is imperative to make such a call in order to encourage the government and individuals to bring more developmental projects to the rural areas across all the 18 local government areas of the state. While underlining that the government can accomplish it all alone, he urges the inhabitants to take responsibility for their health and modify their behavioral pattern.
This main objective was to pinpoint issues degrading the state healthcare.
Ajaka mentions the fact that there are groups in the state that are working in tandem with the state government to advance health initiatives. He reiterates the point by saying that actions taken by the government are not enough. The aforementioned organizations have been taking an active role in a wide range of governmental projects, such as impromptu visits to community centers where they have participated in exercises for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The Global Fund/National Agency for the Control of AIDS/Resilient Sustainable System for Health/COVID-19 Response Mechanism Project’s Ondo State Programme Officer, Jumoke Abereowo, also highlighted the significance of the training. According to her, the project’s primary objective was to pinpoint the systemic issues that were degrading health care in Ondo state’s various communities. Abereowo stated that the initiative is now underway in all 18 of Nigeria’s states, with Ondo state as one of the beneficiaries. The initiatives are also geared on bettering the state’s infrastructure and facility-based organizations.
Fifteen communities in the state are underway in the project.
She further highlighted Owo, Akure South, Akure North, and Ilaje in Ondo West as five of the state’s key local governments where the projects are being implemented. Fifteen local communities are involved in the initiative to improve the performance of the ATM network for people living with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. For the state’s actions and operations to advance rapidly, communities must step up and shoulder more responsibility, particularly for addressing problems that have arisen in healthcare institutions from their part.
On the other hand, the State Programme Officer also recommends that the government increase and fortify its endeavors to provide medical staff and health volunteers. For example ad-hoc staff that works towards fortifying health facilities operations while also developing themselves, amassing skills and knowledge and also receiving stipends. Abereowo also encourages people to work together in the state to safeguard any infrastructure projects that are brought into their neighborhoods by the government or private citizens.
The state has a shortage of medical professionals.
Justice Development and Peace Centre (JDPC) Ondo state Diocese Programme Officer Austin Ogunleye during the training also addressed that it was challenging to deploy health officials to each of these health facilities during their project monitoring in certain remote locations. He came to the conclusion that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that the state was experiencing a shortage of medical professionals and he recommended the state government to take action in order to address the problem.
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Ondo urges residents project contribution – The call is to bring more developmental projects in the state’s rural areas. – Express your point of view.
The Proposed propels great significance and advantages.. I urge ondo residence to contribute to the project.it is for their own benefit.
We all need to contribute our quota towards the country. This also pertains to the states. There is need for us to contribute handsomely to the projects in our states. This is what the Ondo government is clamouring for
This is what is expected of the citizenry in order to contribute to projects been executed and also protect such fr been vandalised as usual.
Ondo urges residents project contribution. We really need to contribute to the development and growth of every state. Good project to Ondo state. People should contribute
There are organizations within the state that are cooperating with the state government in order to move forward with various health programs.
The residents ought to take personal responsibility for their health and alter the pattern of behavior that they have adopted.
This is a good project ondo state trying to come up with we all need to come together for the development and growth of the states which will benefit the state very well
When the government bring such developmental projects let’s all be endeavor to support and protect it. Because it is all for the progress of the community and country as a whole.
There was sufficient evidence to imply a scarcity of medical professionals in the state, thus it was suggested that the state government take action to remedy the situation.
We should all work together on this initiative for ondo state’s growth and development, as it stands to benefit the state greatly.
This plea must be made if the state’s 18 local government districts are to see an increase in the number of development initiatives targeted at their rural communities.
While emphasizing that everything can be handled by the government on its own, he asks the people who live there to take responsibility for their health and alter the pattern of behavior that they have developed.
These groups have begun making surprise trips to local community centers to take part in infectious disease control drills, as one example of their involvement in a wide variety of government initiatives.
Residents of the state should band together in order to ensure the safety of any infrastructure projects that may be brought into their communities by the state government or by private individuals.
impromptu workforce that works towards improving the operations of health facilities while simultaneously working on their own personal development, accumulating skills and information, and collecting stipends for their efforts.
During the course of the project monitoring, it was difficult to send health authorities to each of these health facilities when they were located in some rural areas.
Communities need to take action and assume more responsibility in order for the state’s operations to proceed quickly, especially when it comes to dealing with issues that have developed in healthcare facilities due to their actions.
This is a good initiative that the state of Ondo is working on; we must all work together for the growth and development of the states, which will be highly beneficial to the state.
In any community, state or where the government are doing their part for the advancement and betterment of the lives of their citizens, the community both rural and urban should reciprocate by protection government infrastructures and any other necessary things that needs to be done since all these things are meant for them . This is the very call that the state government of Ondo State is reiterating to her citizens.
We can’t be benefiting from a project and allow it to be destroyed. Ondo State government is actually trying. All the 18 local government work in alignment with the state government and their community to ensure the protection of government infrastructures in order to bring development to rural areas